Under the article linked in the previous post, wherein a moronic state college professor calls for rescinding the 2nd Amendment — that is, the repeal of what is a natural right by those the framers and founders were determined to make sure could not take that right away — sits a comment that I addressed there but that I’ll address here as well, given this site’s commitment to language and

Reader Phil from Hawaii emails the following in answer to those anti-Second Amendment activists and / or grieving parents being used by those same activists. Powerful stuff that he’s kindly allowed me to repost here: I hear the voices of all murdered children. It is a joyful noise: they laugh and sing; safe at the footstool of the Lord. I hear the voices of all parents of murdered children. They

Seems he’s warming to (or rather, he’s more willing to bluntly express) the “losing more slowly,” “ruling class vs. the rest of us” tropes made so popular here on the fringes, where the unhelpful psychopathic smear merchants — out to question the integrity of honorable men whose realism was the brave stance in the face of GOP losses, as compared with easy reactionary anti-Obama, possibly racist positions taken by uncouth

And if the GOP wishes to remain viable, they’ll learn that and put the screws to all the limited government types who scare off the dependents, who we’ll never sell on liberty and self-sufficiency, those being but worn-out tropes of an American mythos that, like Reaganism, we need to put behind us. Because forward! — Is my rough paraphrase of the epitaph for the Republican Party that pandering hacks like

That’s right, the content of calls. Without the specific and targeted warrant we all assumed under FISA was required to obtain said content. Meaning that either the President knew about the NSA’s ability to cull the content of calls without a warrant and condoned it, then lied to the American people in the most brazen way imaginable; or else he didn’t know, is overseeing yet another corrupt agency violating the

In other words, more GOP support for crony capitalism, corporatism, vote-buying, and spending well beyond our means — and screw those Americans who aren’t part of some special interest lobbying effort. Q: What’s the easiest way to tell a Republican establishment congressperson apart from a Democrat congressperson? A: Shut up, Hobbit, and get your unhelpful ass in line. Because Todd Akin. Jeb Bush / Chris Christie 2016: if you didn’t

Or, if you like more apt headlines, “Sen Boxer: Slackjawed American xenophobes, nativists, and racists should stop worrying about keeping noble undocumented pre-Americans from entering the country illegally and start worrying about how they might work longer and harder to pay for the health care of these heroic border jumpers once they’ve expertly avoided our fascist border patrol agents and made it safely into the shadows from which we then